Corporate & Business Law

Business & Corporate Law

Riveles Wahab delivers commercial and corporate legal services to businesses in a value oriented and cost effective manner by design.

Smarter Client Engagement

We understand the fee and incentive structures of large, traditional law firms are often a barrier to quality representation for fast-growth and mid-sized companies. Our general counsel services make it possible for these businesses to leverage the tailored and continually engaged power of in-house counsel, without incurring prohibitive fees. This approach provides our clients more meaningful legal counsel from best of breed lawyers who are deeply familiar with our clients’ operations.

The following are some of our services:

Corporate governance

Financings, including structuring of private placements of debt/equity offerings

Shareholder and Operating agreements

Mergers and acquisitions

Reorganizations

Transactional due diligence

Deal negotiations and closings

The firm frequently advises clients in areas such as choice of corporate or partnership entity, entity formation, corporate governance matters and complex local, state, and federal regulatory issues. We negotiate and draft a wide array of complex agreements and other legal instruments critical to operating any business.

Entity Formation and Consulting
There is no one size fits all strategy to choosing a business entity. Numerous considerations have to be analyzed before choosing a form from the alphabet soup of possibilities (LLC, C or S Corporation, LLP, etc.). Having counsel that can see the long term roadmap for your venture is critical to avoiding choices that will complicate your ability to navigate that road.

Is your venture capital worthy?

Is your venture a vehicle dedicated to a specific project?

In what state should your entity be formed?

Is there a unique brand of partnership arrangement between the founders that would benefit from one kind of entity form over another?

These and other questions not only should be asked but they should be presented to counselors that can answer them with an eye to your venture’s unique needs.

Founders Agreements / Partnership Agreements
Every business venture’s success depends on a clear understanding between the partners/founders. While that understanding is often unspoken and unwritten, having founders agreements that provide an objective framework for the manifold scenarios that can come up is a fundamental for any serious business. Some of these issues include:

Ownership Interests

Purpose of the Venture

Allocation and Distribution of Profits and Losses

Special Duties and Restrictions

Voting Rights and Mechanics

Rights of Managers/Directors/Officers

Admission of New Members; Transfer of Membership

Meetings

Dissolution of the Venture

Investment/Venture Capital (Private Offerings, Convertible Notes, etc.)
Many companies face immediate funding hurdles and need to enter financing contracts as early as the startup phase. Convertible notes, private and series offerings, equity purchases, and a host of other vehicles, structures, and strategies await the founders. Counsel that understands the long term impact of each of these strategies on the company’s management structure and its ability to raise additional funds can assure the venture’s ongoing viability.

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